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sever

verb as in dissociate

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This connection was severed, drying the Red Sea into a barren salt desert.

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A bag is a bag is a bag, even if the one being handed to you has a severed foot sticking out of it.

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“She made accusations that I skinned its skull, and I severed its head and then I took it with me,” he said.

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Over the past few weeks, the Taliban government began severing fibre-optic internet connections across several provinces, saying this was part of an effort to prevent immorality.

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The Taliban in Afghanistan have imposed a nationwide shut down of telecommunications, weeks after they began severing fibre-optic internet connections to prevent what they call immorality.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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